Yet, I think that kids, just like adults like to look at beautiful people and things. One thing that I was thinking about was that many people object to Barbie (and Ken) because they are so beautiful. She really liked the action scenes and any parts with horses involved.
My daughter is autistic, and was able to sit through the whole movie and enjoy it. My daughter actually picked it out because of the Pegasus. not just the ones that are really into Barbie. There's a lot of action in this film, so I suspect that most kids would enjoy it. I really enjoy the ice-skating scenes and think that they were very well done. In fact, I felt that the moral messages of the movie were superb and well done. There's nothing in the movie I found offensive or inappropriate for young viewers. I loved the sense of teamwork you get from watching Barbie and her sister and friends solve the puzzle. She also learns not to give up hope and to master her anger. Barbie learns courage and learns not to judge others so quickly in this movie. The following *might* be considered a *spoiler*. As an adult and mother, I enjoyed watching the movie with my daughter. (sorry - your name scrolled by during my rant) Any more and I'll give it away.įor a kid's movie, this is great. Sorry, but there are too many quotes throughout the movie to allow just the mention of the arranger at the beginning of the movie. I understand that the classical tradition allows arrangers to quote from past musical masters, but the mention of Beethoven and his Pastoral Symphony, and Peer Gynt's Hall of the Mountain King really should have been done at the beginning. Something else that bothers me is the lack of credit given to the composer of the score. Figures that everyone she meets is some kind of royalty - they always are in fantasy novels. Of course, Barbie escapes and has an adventure trying to help her family. He tries to force Annika (Barbie's most recent incarnation) to marry him. Of course, it delves deeply into the fantasy staples of evil magicians with magical staves, who ride griffins and freeze all who oppose him. Just be aware that this is an attempt by Mattel to provide more fodder for the big Barbie merchandising machine. If you have a little girl, they will love this. This is an all around decent family movie. It's true that there were some holes in the story, or at least some logical inconsistencies, but again one must remember the target audience, who wouldn't really think of such things. The animation here was pretty good - not Disney-calibre (if one thinks of Disney as the standard to aspire to) but generally pretty good, and while the movie is obviously tailored to young girls rather than middle-aged men, I still found there were enough twists and turns to make me wonder how it was all going to turn out.
It's a fun and imaginative story full of magical places and people and memorable characters (both good and evil.) Essentially, Annika ("played" by Barbie) has to find a way to build a "wand of light" to reverse the evil spells of the wizard Wenlock, who among other things has turned her sister into a flying horse and her parents into stone. I don't know if the movies have been made to help market the dolls, which seem to be losing their appeal a bit from what I've heard or if the dolls are there to market the movies (or, more likely, a bit of both) but whichever is the case, I have to admit - somewhat to my surprise, this wasn't half bad. This morning though she asked me to watch this movie with her, and - it being a lazy Saturday morning and with not much else to do - I agreed. I've had mixed feelings about that - not wanting her to buy into the whole Barbie-doll image of things, and recognizing that the movies are a marketing ploy to convince young girls to buy more dolls and make more money for Mattel.
My 5 year old daughter is very into the Barbie series of movies.